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Anthony Anzalone is the CEO and Founder of XION, the first layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for consumer adoption by abstracting away the complexities of crypto. Previously known for his "Burnt Banksy" project that sparked global discourse on NFTs, Anthony has established himself as a pioneering figure in Web3 with his work covered by Bloomberg, BBC, CBS, and other major media outlets.
Through his leadership at XION, Anthony focuses on democratizing blockchain technology through chain abstraction, enabling partnerships with global brands like Uber, BMW, and Amazon. His innovations have gained significant institutional validation, with XION becoming the first Title II EU-compliant L1 blockchain and receiving support from Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Evolution of Mainstream Blockchain Adoption
- Institutional Validation & Market Positioning
- Chain Abstraction: From Theory to Implementation
- Chain Abstraction is Dead
- Enterprise Adoption Success Stories
- Securing Partnerships With Major Brands
- Regulatory Leadership in a Changing Landscape
- Building a Web3 Ecosystem for Everyone
- NYSE Live Appearance
- Blending the Physical and Digital WorldXION
Website: xion.burnt.com
X: @burnt_xion
Discord: discord.gg/burnt
Anthony Anzalone
X: @BurntBanksy
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Harrison Hines is the CEO and Founder of Fleek. Fleek is an agentic cloud platform that gives developers and creators the tools to create, manage, and monetize AI agents and virtual influencers. Before launching Fleek, Harrison founded Token Foundry at ConsenSys and has spent the past 8+ years building in the blockchain and Web3 space, now focused on the next evolution of the web: agents.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is Fleek and what is an agent?
- The Agentic Cloud
- The Agent Layer and Why It Matters
- Why agents are the next step after apps and websites
- Real Use Cases and Impact of Agents
- Companions, digital twins, AI-powered influencers
- Combining agents + AI UGC to scale content with real reach
- Partnership with Eliza
- The Future of the Creator Economy
- Agent marketplaceFleek
Website: fleek.xyz
X: @fleek
Discord: discord.gg/fleekHarrison Hines
X: @harris0nhines
LinkedIn: Harrison Hines
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Lucas Matheson is the CEO of Coinbase Canada. He is committed to helping create a more equitable financial system in Canada through the power of blockchain.
Lucas has always believed in Coinbase’s mission. He opened his Coinbase account back in 2014, long before joining the company. In his role, he ensures Coinbase is built for Canadians and with their interests in mind. Working with partners, government and regulators, he is making crypto more accessible to Canadians.
Prior to Coinbase, he was the founder and CEO of Pinshape (exit Formlabs), and Senior Director at Shopify leading various operational and finance teams.
Lucas is passionate about entrepreneurship. He spends his spare time advising entrepreneurs and founders on how they can grow and scale, and actively invests in web3 projects and infrastructure.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why Stablecoin Regulation Must Be a National Priority
- Canadian stablecoin
- How do you define a stablecoin?
- To update the system, we need to change the rules
- Stand With Crypto
- How to get governments to adopt crypto
- The power of Stripe and how they adopted stablecoins
- Educating institutional partners in Canada
- Coinbase introducing EFTs in Canada
- Building a trust battery with regulatorsCoinbase
Website: www.coinbase.com
X: @coinbase
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Coinbase
Lucas Matheson
X: @lucmatheson
LinkedIn: Lucas Matheson, MBA, CFA
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Austin Federa is the Co-Founder of DoubleZero, a dedicated high-performance network for modern distributed systems, and President of the DoubleZero Foundation.
Prior to co-founding DoubleZero in 2024, Austin served as Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation where he was responsible for setting the direction of the Foundation and working with projects and developers building across the Solana ecosystem. Previously, Austin worked on marketing and product at Bison Trails, and was Director of Marketing at Republic and Republic Crypto, a private investing platform.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of Solana
- Token 2049 & Dubai
- Solana’s emergency patch
- We are living in the best time, and we’re on a good track
- How AI will impact our lives
- The founding story of Double Zero
- Increase bandwidth and reduce latency
- Testnet transactions are always quicker than mainnet
- Manufacturing
- Scaling to 500,000 TPS
- Why validators are so important
- Data routing is a huge problem for high-performance networksDoubleZero
Website: doublezero.xyz
X: @doublezero
Discord: discord.gg/doublezeroAustin Federa
X: @Austin_Federa
LinkedIn: Austin Federa
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Joe Burnett is the Director of Market Research at Unchained, a leading bitcoin financial services company founded in 2016.
At Unchained, Joe drives research and market analysis efforts, delivering insights into bitcoin movement indicators, market trends, and the evolving needs of Unchained’s client base — from individual holders to large institutions. As the host of The Bitcoin Frontier Podcast, he leads expert discussions surrounding bridging the gap between bitcoin adoption and financial markets to audiences worldwide.
Before joining Unchained, Joe served as Product Manager and Head Analyst at Blockware Solutions, where he shaped market research and product strategy focused on bitcoin mining. An influential voice in the bitcoin community, Joe’s commentary regularly appears across major media outlets, and his independent publication, The Mustard Seed, offers unique perspectives on the future of bitcoin, technology, and civilization.
Joe holds a Master’s degree in Business Analytics and a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and Computer Science from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- HODL waves = tracking the movement of bitcoins on-chain
- Saylor’s billion $ BTC buys not moving the market?
- Bitcoin as a strategic reserve
- Collaborative custody model
- Financial services for Bitcoin holders
- Bitcoin market trends and analysis
- Publicly traded companies holding bitcoin
- nMAV for bitcoin treasury companies
- Have we decoupled?
- Bitcoin reaching gold parityUnchained
Website: www.unchained.com
X: @unchained
LinkedIn: UnchainedJoe Burnett
X: @IIICapital
LinkedIn: Joe Burnett, MSBA
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Raullen Chai is the Co-Founder and CEO of IoTeX, a modular Web3 infrastructure platform connecting smart devices and real-world data to blockchains. Chai is an expert cryptographer, privacy and data security expert who previously held positions at Google, Uber and Oracle. At Google, he led security initiatives for the company’s technical infrastructure and was the founding engineer of Google Cloud Load Balancer. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, where his research focused on designing and analyzing lightweight ciphers and IoT authentication protocols.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Raullen’s journey from working at Google, Uber, Oracle >>> founding IoTEX
- Waterloo grads moving to USA instead of staying in Canada
- Why Physical AI changes the game
- The DePIN + AI strategic reserve
- Current DePIN landscape
- Smart cities & infrastructure for the people
- Decentralized robotics
- Autonomous infrastructure
- Unlocking real-time, real-world AI inputs
- Enabling sentient AI agents and self-learning infrastructure
- An Uber-like system for robotsIoTex
Website: iotex.io
X: @iotex_io
LinkedIn: IoTexRaullen Chai
X: @Raullen
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Michael Mo is the CEO and Co-founder of KULR Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: KULR), a leader in energy management solutions accelerating the global transition to a sustainable electrification economy. Under his leadership, KULR has developed cutting-edge thermal management and battery safety technologies that power innovations in aerospace, electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and energy storage systems.
A seasoned technology entrepreneur and investor, Michael brings over 20 years of experience in go-to-market strategy, product development, and business growth within hardware, semiconductor, and energy sectors. Before founding KULR, he was Senior Director of Product Marketing at Amlogic Inc., where he drove strategic product initiatives, and an early-stage investor in more than 20 technology companies, including Spreadtrum Communications, CadMos, and AllBusiness.com.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Getting orange-pilled by Michael Saylor
- KULR’s strategic BTC treasury acquiring 668 BTC
- Digital capital and digital energy
- Adopting the corporate bitcoin reserve strategy
- Volatility = vitality
- Why don’t more public companies adopt BTC?
- KULR’s recent partnership with German Bionic for exoskeletons
- Robotics will 100% be a multi-trillion dollar industry
- Thermal management tech
- Future Developments in Energy Management
- The importance of energy in AIKULR Technology
Website: kulr.ai
X: @KULRTech
Instagram: @kulrtechMichael Mo
X: @michaelmokulr
LinkedIn: Michael Mo
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Daniel Marin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nexus. Daniel founded Nexus in 2022 while he was at Stanford with the mission to enable the Verifiable Internet, which will redefine digital trust and create a more transparent, secure, and efficient world. To achieve this mission, Nexus is building a globally distributed Layer-1 blockchain powered by a zkVM engine.
Daniel earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. He was named to Forbes’ ’30 Under 30’ list in 2025, and earned Bronze medals at the International Physics Olympiad in 2018 and 2019.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Are we back?
- Enabling the Verifiable Internet
- Parallels between AI and ZK
- Aggregating unused compute power
- Verifiable AI
- Solving critical issues around privacy, trust, and security
- 2.1 million users and 3.6 million nodes already connected to the network
- With Nexus, more nodes = faster blockchain
- Verifiable computation will impact many markets, blockchain is just one example
- The power of zkEVM
- The future of AI & BlockchainNexus
Website: nexus.xyz
X: @NexusLabs
Discord: discord.gg/nexus-xyzDaniel Marin
X: @danielmarinq
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Leah Wald is CEO of SOL Strategies (CSE: HODL), a publicly traded Canadian company actively investing in, supporting, and providing infrastructure for the Solana blockchain ecosystem. Prior to Sol Strategies, Leah co-founded and was the CEO of Valkyrie Investments, leading the firm to over $1.3 billion in AUM through cryptocurrency trusts, hedge funds, and ETFs. Valkyrie’s advisory business was acquired by CoinShares, and its private trust division by Abra Capital in 2024. Previously, Leah worked at the World Bank Group in the sub-Saharan African region and served as a Partner at Lucid Investment Strategies, one of the first RIAs to allocate GBTC for their clients. Ms. Wald is a contributing writer for Forbes and co-authored the book Hyperwave Theory: The Rogue Waves of Financial Markets.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Becoming more than the MicroStrategy of Solana
- Acquiring OrangeFin Ventures + Laine Validators (Stakewiz)
- The difference between SOL Strategies and SOL ETFs
- Investing in ETFs vs companies
- Why investment advisors don’t push public crypto companies + ETFs
- Partnership with Pudgy Penguins
- The future of the Solana ecosystem
- Pudgy penguins securing a SOL validator
- Investing in crypto via publicly traded companies
- Launching a Solana staking mobile app
- Bridging consumer brands with institutional blockchain infrastructure:
- Branded validatorsSOL Strategies
Website: solstrategies.io
X: @solstrategies_
LinkedIn: SOL Strategies Inc.Leah Wald
X: @LeahWald
LinkedIn: Leah Wald
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John Lilic, CEO of Telos, is a technology entrepreneur and investor focused on blockchain, cryptography, and quantum infrastructure. A leading angel VC, he has taken the Q pill and believes the quantum threat and opportunity are arriving much sooner and more profoundly than most in the blockchain ecosystem realize.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The quantum pill
- Quantum vs Blockchain Security
- Quantum money
- Post-Quantum money vision
- PQC
- Concepts for quantum-native financial infrastructure
- Crypto has serious competition coming with quantum on the rise
- Why blockchain is an important step but not the final destination
- Why the quantum threat is arriving sooner and with greater impact than most expect
- The disconnect between popular discourse and real quantum progress
- How to get involved in quantum computing today?Telos
Website: www.telos.net
X: @HelloTelos
Telegram: t.me/HelloTelosJohn Lilic
X: @LilicJohn
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This episode is brought to you by Treehouse.
Treehouse features two powerful innovations: tAssets, a new class of liquid staking primitives, designed to generate enhanced yields through interest rate arbitrage, and DOR, short for Decentralized Offered Rates, a transparent and reliable consensus-driven benchmark rate for digital assets.Together, they tackle some of DeFi’s biggest problems: fragmented interest rates and the lack of unified benchmarks.
So whether you’re after stable yields or helping shape the future of on-chain finance, Treehouse has the infrastructure to power your journey.
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Jagdeep (Jag) Sidhu is the core developer at Syscoin and part of the management team at SYS Labs, Building Bitcoin’s only modular network. Jag has a strong background in software engineering and is a pioneer in the crypto industry. As a core developer, Jagdeep has marshalled the world’s fifth-oldest surviving cryptocurrency into its second decade, creating tools, technologies, and services that enhance the functionality and usability of the Syscoin platform.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Trump’s tariffs tantrums and it’s market implications
- Will crypto decouple from trad-fi?
- Building on Bitcoin
- The founding story and history of Syscoin
- AI-Ready infrastructure for crypto
- Human observation in the development of AGI
- Supporting AI-driven decentralized applications
- Scaling Bitcoin’s utility
- Launching mainnet for zkSYS
- Merge-Mining with Bitcoin
- Proof-of-Data Availability (PoDA)Syscoin
Website: syscoin.org
X: @syscoin
Telegram: t.me/Syscoin_OfficialJag Sidhu
X: @realSidhuJag
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Treehouse features two powerful innovations: tAssets, a new class of liquid staking primitives, designed to generate enhanced yields through interest rate arbitrage, and DOR, short for Decentralized Offered Rates, a transparent and reliable consensus-driven benchmark rate for digital assets.Together, they tackle some of DeFi’s biggest problems: fragmented interest rates and the lack of unified benchmarks.
So whether you’re after stable yields or helping shape the future of on-chain finance, Treehouse has the infrastructure to power your journey.
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Chris Chung is the CEO & Co-Founder of Titan, Solana’s first Meta DEX Aggregator. In addition, Chris is very active in the Toronto Solana ecosystem as the local ambassador for MonkeDao in Toronto, as well as a Superteam Canada member. Chris previously served as the CTO of a cryptocurrency and US equity hedge fund building out low latency analytics, back office reporting, and trading systems.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto in Canada
- Living in Toronto
- Talented Canadians moving to USA
- Solana DEX landscape and why it's ripe for disruption
- What exactly is a “Meta DEX Aggregator?
- Live-streaming price updates
- SOL vs. ETH
- Titan's role in the Solana DeFi stack
- One-Click Spot Swaps = bread and butter
- Amazing time to buy $SOL
- Next growth catalyst = payments & stablecoinsTitan
Website: titandex.io
X: @Titan_Exchange
Telegram: t.me/TitanDexSolChris Chung
X: @realRockyChung
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This episode is brought to you by Treehouse.
Treehouse features two powerful innovations: tAssets, a new class of liquid staking primitives, designed to generate enhanced yields through interest rate arbitrage, and DOR, short for Decentralized Offered Rates, a transparent and reliable consensus-driven benchmark rate for digital assets.Together, they tackle some of DeFi’s biggest problems: fragmented interest rates and the lack of unified benchmarks.
So whether you’re after stable yields or helping shape the future of on-chain finance, Treehouse has the infrastructure to power your journey.
They’re also running their GoNuts rewards program, simply hold tAssets to earn Nuts, and stand to be rewarded at the end of the campaign.
Head over to their website at treehouse.finance to explore more, and follow them on X @TreehouseFi to stay updated.
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Willem Schroé is the CEO and Co-Founder of Botanix Labs, the team behind Spiderchain, the on-chain home of Bitcoin Finance. Willem is an engineer and lifelong entrepreneur from Belgium, where he researched authenticated encryption and macroeconomics, and was a national mathematics medalist. He formed the thesis of the Spiderchain whiteboarding in the halls of Spangler while doing his MBA at Harvard, and continues to be a menace to whiteboards across the world with his cryptographic scribbles.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin EVM outperforming BitVM
- ZKrollups don't work on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin isn't digital gold; it's digital money
- Using Bitcoin for day-to-day transactions
- Bitcoin finance adoption
- Fully programmable Bitcoin without compromising decentralization
- The importance of unlocking Bitcoin’s $1T+ market cap for on-chain finance
- How Spiderchain differs from other Bitcoin Layer 2s
- Earning yield from your bitcoin without selling
- The importance of decentralization
- The magic of whiteboardsBotanix Labs
Website: botanixlabs.xyz
X: @BotanixLabs
Discord: discord.gg/botanixlabsWillem Schroé
X: @WillemSchroe
LinkedIn: Willem Schroé
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Vikram Arun is the Co-Founder of Superform, an on-chain wealth app to grow your crypto portfolio. With a background in engineering and finance, Vikram has been building in the crypto space since 2017. Prior to Superform, he co-founded Ledger Capital, a crypto research firm, and worked on Wall Street conducting biotech equity research and analyzing high-growth technologies. At BlockTower Capital, Vikram co-led a $100m DeFi and Yield Fund, building scalable trading strategies across 15 chains with a focus on statistical arbitrage. Seeing the need for scalable DeFi products, he left BlockTower in 2021 to launch Superform. Vikram holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering and a Master’s in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why the market is down right now
- Current market cycle
- The founding story of Superform
- Stablecoin indexes
- High-yield stablecoins are becoming crypto’s killer app
- Bringing users on-chain without the on-chain feeling
- Superform V2 shows where DeFi is headed
- DeFi is finally breaking past the power user bubble
- Capital efficiency is the next frontier
- What will bring DeFi to the masses?
- Next wave of DeFi Applications
- Are memecoins actually dead?Superform
Website: www.superform.xyz
X: @superformxyz
Discord: discord.gg/superformVikram Arun
X: @vik_runa
LinkedIn: Vikram Arun
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Joanna Zeng is the co-founder and CEO of SOON Network, before establishing SOON (Solana Optimistic Network), Joanna used to be a currency trader on Wall Street, and has since held roles in business development and product management at Aleo, Optimism, and Coinbase. She also served as a founding board member of CryptoNYC and is an active angel investor.
SOON is a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain built on Solana's Virtual Machine (SVM). It uses Optimistic Rollups to take Solana’s already impressive speed and low costs to a whole new level.
Under Joanna’s leadership, SOON has rapidly progressed, launching its DevNet within six months and positioning itself as a key player in the next wave of blockchain innovation. Her journey from traditional finance to blockchain exemplifies her vision and commitment to creating sustainable, real-world solutions that push the boundaries of decentralization.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- SOON is an ETH L2 using the SVM
- Saratoga Water going viral
- Community-Centric Building
- SOON led a ‘co-builder’ funding round in 2024 with no VC involvement, allowing community to have stake in the project
- High-Performance L2s
- Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)
- SOON’s decoupled SVM separates execution from consensus
- Kaito yaps
- Key benefits of using SVMs compared to EVMs
- The future of L2s
- Ethereum L2 fragmentationSOON Network
Website: soo.network
X: @soon_svm
Discord: discord.gg/soon-svmJoanna Zeng
X: @justsayuluvjo
LinkedIn: Joanna Zeng
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Darius Tabai is the CEO and co-founder of Vertex Protocol, a leading decentralized exchange built on Arbitrum. Darius is an experienced trader with a history of working in FX, Commodities, and Crypto. Darius’ previous roles include the Head of Trading at JST Digital, Head of Trading at CrossTower, Global Head of Metals Trading at Merrill Lynch, and the Global Head of Precious Metals Trading at Credit Suisse.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The story behind founding Vertex Protocol
- What is a perp DEX?
- Arbitrum's speed, low fees, and EVM compatibility
- DeFi Infrastructure & UX Improvements
- The competitive landscape of DEXs
- What Makes Vertex Unique?
- Tokenomics & Protocol Incentives
- The rise and fall of memecoins
- Liquidity across blockchains
- Partnership with Berachain and SONICVertex
Website: vertexprotocol.io
X: @vertex_protocol
Telegram: t.me/LiquidityLoungeDarius Tabai
X: @DariusTabai
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Ian Smith is the CEO & CTO at Quantum EVM. He’s a seasoned technologist with 21+ years of experience spanning blockchain, cryptography, cloud microservices, and AI-driven solutions.
Proficient in 20+ languages, including Golang, Python, and C++, he has led groundbreaking projects across industries. Ian has worked with major organizations like NASA, Oracle, VISA, and Boeing, contributing to secure, scalable systems in finance, IoT, and blockchain.
With deep expertise in cryptography and post-quantum security, Ian has designed advanced blockchain architectures and smart contract platforms. His blend of technical depth and leadership makes him a key innovator in next-generation digital ecosystems.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Quantum Threat to Cryptography
- Quantum Computing Risks to Blockchain
- Why existing cryptographic systems are vulnerable and how to prepare
- Quantum-Safe Solutions
- Practical steps to secure blockchain infrastructure and decentralized applications
- The Future of Web3 Security
- How post-quantum cryptography will transform the blockchain landscape
- The Timeline and Race for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
- What’s next for Quantum EVM?
- Quantum safe crypto addressesQuantum EVM
Website: quantumevm.com
X: @quantumevm
Telegram: t.me/quantumevmIan Smith
X: @IanSmith_HSA
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Yves La Rose is a global technology entrepreneur who founded the EOS Network and currently serves as its CEO. Yves is a long-standing, well-respected leader within the EOS community, known particularly for the pivotal role he has played in the ecosystem’s resurgence.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The history and future of EOS Network
- Blockchains need to upgrade themselves
- EOS Rebrand to Vaulta
- The New Era of Finance
- How Web3 is Poised to Dramatically Disrupt Finance
- Vaulta Banking Advisory Council
- Creating the Financial Operating System for Web3 Banking
- Innovation is shifting back to Bitcoin
- The future of Bitcoin DeFi
- Canada and USA relationship
- The Four Pillars: Wealth management, consumer payments, portfolio management, insuranceEOS Network
Website: eosnetwork.com
X: @EOSNetworkFDN
Telegram: t.me/EOS_globalYves La Rose
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Kyle Reidhead is Co-Owner & Head of Research at Milk Road, a leading crypto investing media company, and Founder of Impact3, a crypto-native marketing agency helping top protocols and brands in crypto grow.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current market sentiment - short-term pain for long-term gain
- The market isn’t as bad as it seems
- The USA needs to refinance their trillions of debt and they want lower interest rates
- Trump is trying to cause a fake recession
- "The Fat App" thesis
- All the L1s are lowering their prices
- Analyzing the business cycle
- Kyle’s thesis around Coinbase becoming a trillion-dollar company by 2030
- DeFI
- AI agentsMilk Road
Website: milkroad.com
X: @MilkRoadDaily
Instagram: @milkroaddailyKyle Reidhead
X: @KyleReidhead
LinkedIn: Kyle Reidhead
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Seb is the founder and CEO of Sophon, the Consumer chain bridging Web2 to Web3 and the largest blockchain node sale, raising $65 million. He also serves as VP of Paper Ventures. He was previously at Matter Labs, the creators of ZKsync.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why is the market down bad? Trump trying to cut rates
- US Bitcoin reserve - won’t be buying Bitcoin anytime soon
- Mass adoption won’t happen by convincing people to use crypto
- Mass adoption = better internet products, powered by the benefits of having an onchain backend
- Gaming, social, AI, prediction markets = crypto goes mainstream
- Why the current crypto UX is broken
- Sophon’s curation model - focuses on high-quality, sticky applications
- The financialization of culture
- Data drives our modern economies
- Sophon Intelligence Agency - $5M for on-chain AI agents
- The social oracle
- Sophon’s data hubSophon
Website: sophon.xyz
X: @sophon
Discord: discord.gg/sophonhubSeb
X: @0xsebastiena
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